Quotes About Individualism

You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. This renunciation of reality can feel natural and pleasant, but the result is your demise as an individual- and thus the collapse of any political system that depends upon individualism.

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. This renunciation of reality can feel natural and pleasant, but the result is your demise as an individual, and thus the collapse of any political system that depends on individualism

Ka?da organizacja jest dla mnie za ciasna. Mam potrzeb? wolno?ci. Taka wolno?c jest m?cz?ca, bo za ka?dym razem w obliczu jakiego? problemu, kiedy trzeba postanowi?, co my?le?, co zrobi?, mo?na odwo?a? si? tylko do w?asnego umys?u, w?asnego serca, a nie do ?atwej, gotowej to u?ytku linii partyjnej albo s?ów jakiej? ?wi?tej ksi?gi.

The capitalist epoch is the first in human history that permits individuals to view themselves as isolated entities with no inherent connection to their fellow beings.

The appeal to identity is capitalism's secret sauce.

To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms', all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected.

I have an old-fashioned belief that Americans like to make up their own minds on the basis of all available information.

You know when people start talking about freedom they have to be old. They gotta be old-fashioned and really out of touch. Freedom? Well, what's that? Who needs any of that?

I'm ATT to the bone. I have my close circle of people, my clique - Jorge Masvidal, Mike Brown, Dan Lambert. I'm not friends with everybody. It's a gym, but this is a one-man sport.

I was an only child and I wasn't going to share anything with anybody.

I don't force anything onto other people, because you'll never get a good satanist out of forcing somebody to be one.

People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion—these are the two things that govern us. And yet—

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.  It has led Individualism entirely astray.  It has made gain not growth its aim.  So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.  The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.

Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes. It is well to have learned that.

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

People used to say of me that I was too individualistic. I must be far more of an individualist than ever I was. I must get far more out of myself than ever I got, and ask far less of the world than ever I asked. Indeed, my ruin came not from too great individualism of life, but from too little. The one disgraceful, unpardonable, and to all time contemptible action of my life was to allow myself to appeal to society for help and protection.

No son of mine should ever take the side of the Puritans: that is always an error.

Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian...I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does. I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

I did not want any external influence in my life. You know how independent I am by nature. I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.

Other people are quite dreadful.  The only possible society is oneself.